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Re: Bug#377600: please support -R to reverse diff (fwd)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Bug#377600: please support -R to reverse diff (fwd)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:44:21 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

martin f krafft <address@hidden> writes:

> How is the functionality "easily available by other means"?

You can use "diff a b" rather than the proposed "diff -R b a".

> Also, you're talking about bloat and complexity with a GNU tool?
> Come on...

Suggestions for simplifying "diff" are welcome.
(Especially if accompanied by code.  :-)




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